The Contributor, Vol. 14

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Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 14: A Monthly Magazine, September, 1893About five o'clock a few clouds gather, a light breeze springs up, some canvass is spread, passengers and crew put on new signs of life and I go below to look over some correspondence. Shortly after wards the piano is heard on the main deck, and the strains of a waltz, rising and falling on the air, come ¿oating through the ship, followed by the sound of romping feet, glancing through an open port hole which lights and venti lates the stateroom, I am startled at seeing a corpse ¿oating by on, the waves, it is lying on the back with arms extend~ ed, the lower limbs slightly spread and the feet towards the looker-ou, remind ing-him, in ill-time, of bathers at the lake, except that the head, thrown back.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.